If you had your time again would you have done a different degree?

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I would. English. I was great at it at school (A*) gcse etc. Good degree but imo totally useless. No longer want to teach.
I was also good at science but found the maths component tricky. I wish id done something a bit more useful and scientific like radiography. I will prob go vack and study but i wish id done something more useful in the first place!

Anyone else?

God yes. All 3 of them.

Yes - did a combined degree with geography the major component. It has lined up with the job I'm in, but I wish I'd done something more specialist or vocational. Looked at Msc and PhDs a few years ago, but now that fees are so high and I have a 2year old part-time study is just a pipedream.

Hmmm I had a place for my first love - interior architecture. But I ended up with dd instead. Few years later I did a maths degree with the ou because it was practical and would pretty much guarantee a job which it has. I don't regret doing it but do sometimes wonder what life would've been like if I'd have done the interior architecture course instead

Yep...I did history. Wish I'd done psychology.

Yes. I did a degree in design but very maker led, I specialised in ceramics. loved it but totally useless unless your going to be a self employed craftsperson really. I got a much lower mark than expected and lost all confidence, it's taken me years to realise I was/am pretty talented and the teaching was abysmally poor.

I wish I had done architecture, I had the grades. Far too late and expensive now!

No. I did languages (French, Spanish and Catalan) and it allowed me to fulfil a bucket list item by living in Barcelona for a while. My job is very common sense based so doesn't require a specific subject.

No, I did psychology which was really interesting, just the other day I tested my kids on whether they had theory of mind using an experiment I'd learned as an undergrad....so I obviously remembered it!

I didn't really use it in my career though but I have the kind of career that just asks for 'a graduate' and then all the other stuff learned is post graduate so the original degee doesn't really matter

Definitely. I did teaching because my mother made me. I'd like to have done something that enabled me to work in a library or something medical,

No I loved every moment of my degree (music) I made friends for life, learnt so so much and still use the skills every day (music teacher). My PGCE was a useful qualification, my masters was an indulgence.

Definitely. I did Microbiology because the family ethos was 'there are always jobs in the sciences'. I was good at them but didn't enjoy them. If I had my time again I'd have done French. Not classical with all the literature etc, more French and Business French.

I'd do the same again. I use it in my professional and private life so it's been very useful.

However, I'd like to do more degrees, not instead of but as well as my original one. When I retire .....

Law and yes. I teach now and it's been no use to me at all (though I quite liked studying in general so Uni was fun).

No. I did a vocational degree and I still (mostly!) enjoy my profession.

I remember DH/BIL/SIL who all went to red brick unis, once being a bit dismissive and snooty about former polys-turned-unis (I attended one that had a very good reputation in my field). Ironically, I am the only one working in anything even remotely related to my degree.

I wish I had my time again, then I would do a degree. People often ask me, what did you do at university? It would be lovely to laugh off the wrong choice rather than say I never actually went.
So! You're ALL BU. Be grateful you have one! ( light hearted OK???!)

I studied Politics. I don't regret my degree as such, but part of me wishes I had done a conversion to Law.

I wanted to do Law originally but my teacher at the time didn't think I was confident enough. Now I know that it is total rubbish and I shouldn't have let myself be put off.

I did it and it was a means to an end. Degree was mostly boring and uninspiring. I had a great career though, then changed my mind after a while. It's something I could always get back into, I suppose and I can't think of anything i'd have preferred.
In a way, hairdressing or beauty would suit my life style now as it's a more flexible skill

Yep.. 4 years into a 6 year Open Uni degree and my career has completely changed and my qualification will be useless when I'm done. At 9k a year it's too late to drop out. Will need to begin studying again as soon as I graduate

I wish I had gone ahead and studied medicine. I had the grades but I also had a real streak of lazy running through me, so I ended up on a totally different course. I enjoyed what I did study however it was never a passion.

No. I was going to do law, but met a lawyer who advised me to do something I loved as a degree and then do a law conversion course - partly because you use such a tiny portion of the law degree later, and partly because most people studying law are v dull . I don't know about the latter statement, but it was great advice - I studied Russian and French and then went on to study Land Management and become a surveyor.

If I'd been better at maths and science I would have liked to become an equine vet, but I was much better at English, languages and arts subjects. Maybe history if I'd really thought about it more, but I don't regret studying Russian - living there for a year was an amazing experience, and surveying is a brilliantly diverse career.....

I did English then Law Conversion.
I would have preferred to do economics

Yes. I did maths and physics because they were subjects I knew from school. Wish I'd been more adventurous and chosen oceanography or geophysics or earth sciences or something.
But it hasn't held me back and I loved my masters and my current career (science related but not subject specific).

I am not sure. When I was at school there was no real expectation that anyone would do anything apart from go to university to do something academic. I think I would have enjoyed a vocational course to become a conservator in hindsight. My other bucket list idea was medicine, but the prospect of doing that was killed off by a really bad Chemistry teacher who put me off completely. I'd love to be a doctor though.

Yes, interestingly enough though my degree is vocational (library studies) and has stood me in good stead, BUT at the time I didn't know you could also do it as a masters. So if I had my time again I'd do history or archaeology or something and then done the masters.

We were completely railroaded into uni at our secondary. No other option was even discussed or considered.

I wanted to do Architecture. I wasn't allowed to do Engineering or Design Tech at school as we were streamed and I was put in Electronics. I then didn't feel I had the necessary gcses/a levels.

I wish I'd fought a bit harder.

I did a BSc Joint Honours in Physics and Geology, then moved into civil engineering via postgraduate study.

I'm happy with the end result, but if I had my time again, I'd save myself a few years study and go straight for the Newcastle Uni BEng in Civil and Environmental Engineering.